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Markers and whiteboard
Line art
Colour illustration
Business and diagrams
Dark boards
Explain a product, a process or a concept in a video that people watch through to the end.
The most common flaw in explainer video is a visual that arrives after the sentence it belongs to. Here the narration is generated before the animation, so every drawing has an exact cue in the audio and the picture lands on the word that needs it.
Product onboarding, how a mechanism works, a policy change, a scientific process, a company story, a history lesson. If it can be told in order, it can be drawn in order. The samples on this site range from photosynthesis to the American Revolution to a personal-finance listicle.
Script: written to your length, or pasted verbatim. Storyboard: one idea per board with the exact lines spoken over it. Illustration: each board drawn as a whole picture so layout and characters stay consistent. Rendering: ink traced stroke by stroke, timed to the narration word by word.
A clean infographic style for a product; chalkboard or classic marker for a lesson; the creative style for a story; technical line drawing for a mechanism. 23 styles, and the same script can be rendered in several to compare.
The script, the storyboard and the timing are plain text. Change one board and re-render only what changed. Director notes fix the palette, the recurring character and the production rules so the second version matches the first.
Marketing teams for landing-page explainers. Course creators for lesson videos without recording. Support teams for 'how do I' videos that deflect tickets. Teachers for flipped classrooms. YouTube channels for a steady weekly explainer.
Type the idea in the generator above, pick a length and a style, and render. The first video each day is free.
| Feature | StrokeVideo | Doodly | VideoScribe | Canva |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where the drawings come from | Generated for each board of your script | Shared doodle library, placed by hand | Image library, your uploads, or AI images metered per month | Templates and stock elements |
| Script | Written for you, or pasted and used verbatim | You write and record it | You write it, or an AI script and voiceover within a monthly quota | You write it; text-to-speech add-on |
| Drawing timed to narration | Automatic, word level | Manual, on a timeline | Manual, on a timeline | Manual |
| Drawing styles | 23 | Four board types, one shared doodle library | Library styles | One whiteboard effect |
| Narration languages | 15 built in | Whatever you record | 45+ AI voiceover languages, 75-150 minutes a month by plan | Text-to-speech languages |
| Time for a 3-minute video | About 5 minutes, unattended | Half a day to a day of editing | Half a day to a day of editing | A few hours |
| Runs | In the browser | Desktop app, sold inside the Voomly Cloud suite | Desktop app and web | Browser and apps |
| Price | Free daily video; plans priced for your region | Subscription, $49-79 a month ($490-790 a year) | Subscription, three tiers per licence | Free tier; Pro subscription |
| Manual control per element | Script, storyboard and timing as text | Full drag-and-drop control | Full drag-and-drop control | Full |
Yes, and no. Every account can render 1 video a day, up to 2 minutes, in any style and any of 15 narration languages, and download it as an MP4. There is no watermark on the video. Free videos end with a 2-second StrokeVideo card; members' videos don't. No credit card is needed. When you want more than the free daily videos, a plan renews every month, quarter or year until you cancel, and the minutes it gives you never expire.
Sixty to ninety seconds for a product page; two to four minutes for a concept; longer only if it is broken into sections.
Yes. Drop in the PDF, or paste a link to the page, and a narration is written from it. To have the text read exactly as written, put it into I have a script.
Yes. Choose Landscape 16:9 for a full-screen YouTube video at 1920×1080, or Portrait 9:16 for Shorts. Both are MP4 files with narration included, ready to upload.
Each board is illustrated for your script, and director notes let you fix a palette and a character, so two videos on different topics look different.
15: English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, French, German, Arabic, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Bengali, Urdu, Chinese, Swedish.
Yes. Edit the text and re-render; the storyboard and timing are rebuilt.
1 free video a day; a plan for more. See the pricing page.
